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Veronica beccabunga

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Name

Identification
Veronica beccabunga L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Veronica baxteri
  • Veronica americana
  • Veronica beccabunga
Common name
  • ualubu (A Chev. fide JMD) (MALI, TAMACHEK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • brooklime., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for VERONICA Beccabunga Engl. forma minima [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
VERONICA Beccabunga Engl. forma minima [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 379.
VERONICA Beccabunga A. Rich. var. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 125.
Information
A glabrous or sparingly puberulous herb; stems about 3 in. long, rather stout and succulent, decumbent and rooting in the lower part. Leaves shortly stalked, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, 2 3/4 lin. broad, subacute, narrowed at the base, rather fleshy, obscurely few-toothed. Racemes axillary, about 3/4 in. long, few-flowered; bracts linear-oblong, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, scarcely acute; pedicels somewhat shorter than the bracts. Calyx 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long; segments oblong, obtuse. Corolla about 1 1/2 lin. long. Capsule suborbicular, slightly shorter than the calyx.
Range
The typical form is widely spread in Europe and Asia.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Samen; Mounts Deggen and Bachit, 13000–14000 ft., Schimper, 1271!

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